“Those who take counsel only of the outrages and proscriptions of which we are the victims, will lean on colonization.… Yet this is altogether the result of a partial view of our past history and present condition.” Douglass urged readers to note Black Americans’ successes and white Americans’ growing acceptance of them. “The ‘Jim Crow pew,’ and the ‘Jim Crow car,’ are becoming relics of American barbarism,” Douglass wrote. “Men are everywhere becoming ashamed of the littleness of despising a man for the complexion which God has given him.”
